Education Department urges colleges to rethink whether they should ask applicants about criminal and disciplinary records -- and to be more nuanced when they do so. read more >

Ms. Warren told The Chronicle that proving actual racial discrimination in individual tenure cases is nearly impossible. But she agreed to join forces with the student activists and the Rutgers faculty union by framing the problem "more at the institutional level — a systemic racism." read more >

The values that undergird higher education as a guarantor of human dignity and enlightenment are under a special intensity of attack, argues Robert Weisbuch, while we in academe seem preoccupied with the little stuff. read more >

In order to graduate, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will soon be required to take a class in an American minority culture, The News-Gazette reports. read more >

The chancellor of the University of California at Davis, Linda P.B. Katehi, was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday night, pending an investigation of information that “raises serious questions” about whether she may have violated university policies, according to a statement from the office of the president of the University of California system. read more >

Students working to force the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign face critics using the language of social justice to attack them. read more >

Jeff Selingo’s There Is Life After College places too much emphasis on vocational education and not enough on the virtues of the liberal arts. read more >

The financial struggle of public research institutions may be a matter of choice—not necessity, as public leaders say. read more >

Work at a regional public university? You'll earn more at a unionized, large urban institution, according to new analysis of faculty salaries. read more >

"Unionized instructors at larger suburban institutions earn an average of about $40,000, or 50 percent, more than their nonunionized peers at midsize rural institutions, the study found." read more >

"Instructors on the tenure track earned the biggest median salary bump from last year, at 2.2 percent." read more >

Backlash is mounting against Emory students who protested pro-Trump chalk messages. University's president is under fire for not dismissing them outright. read more >

AAUP attempts to reframe debate and put focus on due process and the importance of faculty freedom of speech. read more >

Chinese students hire imposter “gunmen” to take the SAT, the GRE and other tests. read more >

“The joke among my friends is that you can be gay at Messiah, just so long as you don’t act gay, or say gay things, or do anything to show you’re gay.” read more >

People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines. read more >

Campus-carry laws, like the one going into effect in Texas, pose a profound threat to free speech. read more >

When efforts to resolve a federal investigation into how the University of Virginia handled reports of sexual violence began in earnest last spring, campus officials were corresponding with a lawyer in a U.S. Department of Education field office. By the time the case was resolved in September, tense legal wrangling had reached the highest levels of the university, the state, and the federal agency. read more >

Carolyn Stefanco, president of the College of Saint Rose, cut 23 faculty positions and 12 academic programs. She won a prize for her efforts. read more >

Two public colleges in Illinois announced additional belt-tightening measures this week as they enter their ninth month without state funding due to a budget impasse in the legislature. read more >